Urgent Question: What's a motivation letter? What's its difference from cover letter? As above, help!!

Do you think it is a good idea to learn English through a 19th century novel? I haven't been using English for a really long time, ever since I came back to China. It feels like everything I konw about it is slipping away noiselessly and it got me really worried. So, I found myself a English tutor. The class has been great. But I am have a problem now, sort of...... We use journal articles as study material until now. The thing is, normally they are quite short and I want to read something longer than that. Although I read other stuff in my spare time too, reading for pleasure isn't quite the same as reading with a purpose. Since I'm not a diligent person at all, I need something or some one to motivate me or even push me from time to time. Since I always wanted to read Wuthering Heights, I was about to suggest that we use that as our text book. However, again, I couldn't be sure if that would be a good idea. I had a start with the book and find the wording quite different from the comtemporary novels I had read so far. So, now, I don't know if reading a 19th century novel is a good method to employ or not. What do you think?

Is Skype used more often than MSN to communicate with language exchange partners?

I would love to know more people and find language exchange partner on this website, but it seems that not many people use msn. Is this true?

Professionals, these days!! Part two. Here comes another of her opionion that I couldn't stand. All through the second half of her lecture, she seperatly talked about how female and male should dress. For male, shirt and tie combination rules. For female, you should keep the color and pattern simple, always wear stockings and make you're not showing anything, such as cleavage, shoulder or too much leg, etc. Otherwise, it's not fare for the men as they maybe suduced and commit crimes such as sexual harassment. And then, she stressed on the last part again, saying "when someone grabs your ass and you're ready to accuse them of sexual harassment, you should always check what you're wearing first'. OMG!!!

Would you consider a person's social status high or low, if he/she tells you that he/she works from home? Why?

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Do you feel nervous when speak a foreign language? If yes, what do you do to ease your nerve?

Sometimes when I speak English I could get so nervous that I even stutter at some point, but other times I am just fine.

What do you think is the reason that makes you nervous when you speak a foreign language? What calms you down?

Long distant relationship just doesn't work! Believe it or not, long distant relationship just doesn't work, not at all!! Most of the people, who are madly in love, feel like anything is possible and with the love they can conquer the world. But really? No. No matter how in love you are, with the distance and time, everything just cool off. You never should believe in something such as "just a phone call away". The reception sometimes is bad, you could have caught him/her at a bad time and the battery usually runs out before you realise it.You have to hold on to one thought, so that many hours, or even days later you can tell it to him/her. And when you do get the chance, there's always something missing. The gap between you just grow bigger and bigger until you can drive a truck through it. Then it doesn't matter any more. He/she could be in another city, another country or even in the space, and it just makes no more difference.

May be love and hate isn't that different I’ve tried to read Wuthering Heights several times before but I never got to finish it. There was a time when I was too sleepy, and when I got carried away by something more intriguing at hand, and when I just wanted to wait until I have a whole day, so that I can really dive in the story…… All these absurd reasons made the story unknown to me until I watched the Coky Giedroyc’s version of it last weekend. The movie itself is not too dad, but the story was epic, better than I ever would have expected. And I regret so much that I watched the movie before I could read the book. Nowadays, you don’t get to see that kind of intensive love, not even in fictions. But somehow I was still able to relate to it. I hated to see how Heathcliff was trapped in his love and hate for Catherine, how Catherine’s death brought him down the road where there’s no return, how he finally found his peace. I guess love was designed to rape out the rational part of one’s mind and magnifies all other sensations by a million times. I’m so going to read the book, soon. Lol~~